Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Lazy Mom

Josie Keefe and Phyllis Ma, artists that collaborate under the name Lazy Mom, have turned playing with their food into an art.

Keefe and Ma are Columbia graduates who work in what Keefe termed “obsessive arranging of objects.”

Keefe works as a prop stylist and Ma as a window dresser, and the two began their partnership as a series of whimsical fruit-related photos to be printed in a Zine.

But after publishing, Keefe and Ma found that they had more exploring to do with food and photography.

The moniker and the body of work of Lazy Mom is based on an imaginary mother who spends her time obsessive-compulsively arranging groceries instead of preparing meals for her family. Their work explores the simplicity and complexity of modern food, which can be anything.

At its core, Lazy Mom is about this social expectation that has been deeply ingrained into human society for centuries.

“You can also say that it’s beneficial first and foremost for mom, because she has taken the role expected of her, and reversed it in a way so that she’s the one in control,” Ma explains.

“She’s cooking and preparing food the way she wants. In that sense, Lazy Mom is feminist project moonlighting as food photography.”

More about Lazy Mom and their artists Josie Keefe and Phyllis Ma can be found at https://www.instagram.com/lazy/  and https://lvl3official.com/lazy-mom/.